Kulturkampf

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Project manager Simon Ludlam told the Energy Revolution podcast the cable was originally "going to go straight through" the tribute, before fans began leaving his firm "hundreds of calls".

"Actually we went quite close to some real Bronze Age remains, but we avoided Dobby's grave," he said.

Ludlam, founder of Etchea Energy, said a BBC News interview about the project had turned into a public relations nightmare after fans got wind of what was to happen.

He told the podcast that during the filmed interview he had pointed out where the cable would go underground, saying: "We did the shot, we finished I went back to London, and they then aired it a couple of weeks later.

"And we got hundreds of calls, I mean hundreds of calls."

The Bronze Age remains the cable went close to were mentioned in Pembrokeshire council planning documents about the power link.

It said archaeological trenches dug near the route of the underground cable "contained the rim of an inverted pottery vessel whose fabric suggests a Bronze Age collared urn circa 1700-1500BC, typically associated with human burial".

The cable diversion is not the first time Dobby's grave has been saved.

In 2022 the National Trust agreed it could remain in place following a consultation, but urged visitors not to leave souvenirs.

I assume the UK has things like in the US where you can pay to "sponsor" what's public land and essentially "manage" it for the state, the Potter fans should find out how to do this for the area around the grave. When they planned the route it would have come up and they would have gone around it to begin with.

With only taking the information from this article I'm somewhat surprised if the National Trust hasn't bothered to see if they could find fans to take care of the grave area already. But perhaps they didn't want to "officially" recognize it.

I'm sure there has to be some stupid regulation somewhere where they can create some dumbass handful of square meter enclave that goes slightly underground in the beach with some SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES for the fans if they fail to provide but in reality nobody will change anything they're already doing.